While touring Kai-Ming Ho’s labs, DENSO representatives view microscale level templates that are created to make photonic crystals.  (left to right)  Bruce Harmon, Hisayoshi Oshima, Tatsuhiko Nonoyama, Hiroaki Fukuda and Yoshiyasu Yamada.

Ames Laboratory put out the welcome mat on Nov. 12 for representatives from DENSO, a leading supplier of advanced automotive technology, systems and components for all the world’s major automakers.  Deputy Director Bruce Harmon hosted the group, arranging talks and lab tours for the visitors who were anxious to see Ames Lab technologies that might benefit their company.

“The DENSO representatives were trolling for infant technologies to see if there was something they really liked and might want to support,” says senior metallurgist Iver Anderson, who talked with them about metal powders and magnets. 

In addition to Anderson, the DENSO group heard presentations from and visited with the following individuals:  Kai-Ming Ho, photonics; Rana Biswas, photonics; Thomas Koschny, metamaterials; Victor Lin, nanocatalysis; Surya Mallapragada, bioinspired materials; and Joe Shinar, OLEDs and sensors.